Crocodile Man Easter Egg in Google Earth

October 18, 2007

Yesterday I was having a discussion with Gerardo about the many models selected by Google to be in the 3D Buildings layer. I was showing him a 3D model I had been using for a project for a forthcoming GEB story. I commented that I was surprised more models didn’t have little easter eggs hidden in them. A moment later Gerardo says “I just found one!”. He says “It’s that crocodile guy from the TV show”. Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Man, is probably the best known Australian. So naturally, the model we were looking at was the best known Australian 3D building: The Sydney Opera House. Here’s a short video showing the easter egg and how to find it in Google Earth:

About Frank Taylor

Frank Taylor started the Google Earth Blog in July, 2005 shortly after Google Earth was released. He worked in 3D graphics for many years and was very impressed with this exciting product. Frank left in 2009 to circumnavigate the earth by sailboat as part of the Tahina Expedition.

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I went to an architectural exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC some years ago. Now, believe it or not – the idea for the design of the Sidney Opera House itself actually came from broken egg shells! As I remember it, the display case had an architectural model of the building along with broken egg shells (THE broken egg shells? I don’t remember) and sketches showing how they were developed into the building.

Actually, that’s a problem with the new model format in Google Earth 4.3. The Steve Irwin part of the Sydney Opera House model get’s compressed to low resolution and looks very blocky. I’ve reported the problem to Google, but I doubt it’s very high priority to fix it.

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